[Avodah] How much Conformity to local Nusach/Mihag is required for Shatz and for the Private Worshiper?

[Ken Bloom]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:15:18 +0200
Arie Folger <afolger at aishdas.org> wrote:

> The following is based on a story I recall, while not recalling the
> source. As human memory is fallible, please consider the following
> with some skepticism.
> 
> ROY believes that the whole world should use nussa'h 'edot hamizra'h.
> There is a story about how he was visiting at Lincoln Square and
> wanted to be Shatz. The rabbi (I don't recall if it was RRiskin or
> RAMintz) pointed out that he should follow the local minhag. After
> not giving any indication to the contrary, he proceeded to do the
> entire service according to nuss'ah 'edot hamizra'h. When confronted
> after davening, eh, tefillah, he told the rabbi that he followed the
> local monhag that they should have been following all along.
> 
> Sorry, but I can't recall the source of the story.

That would be inconsitent with ROY's psak that a sepharadi should not
be the Shatz at an ashkenazi shul.

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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